Biology of Business

manufacturing

Converting raw materials into products. Manufacturing processes parallel biosynthesis: cells are molecular factories that assemble complex products from simple inputs using catalytic machinery.

153 entities tagged with "manufacturing"

Citations (3)

Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production

The role of product architecture in the manufacturing firm

The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production

Companies (5)

3M

Honda

Precision Castparts

Samsung

Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC)

Definitions (2)

Just-In-Time Manufacturing

kanban

Frameworks (1)

Toyota Production System

Governments (6)

Germany

Japan

Bavaria

Ontario

Thailand

Malaysia

Inventions (130)

Acheulean stone tool

Armstrong gun

Aurignacian stone tool

Autoclave

Automatic flour mill

Beet sugar factory

Bidriware

Bimetallic strip

Blue and white pottery

Bobbinet machine

Bone tool

Boring machine

Bow drill

Bramah lock

Calcium carbide production

Caliper

Cam

Cardboard

Carding

Carvel boat building

Cash register

Cellophane adhesive tape

Ceramic

Clinker boat building

Cloisonné

Coal tar

Copying lathe

Corliss steam engine

Corrugated fiberboard

Crank

Crank-slider mechanism

Diesel engine

Differential gear

Drawloom

Dry dock

Ebonite

Egyptian faience

Electric arc furnace

Electric chainsaw

Electrical tape

Electrolysis

Endless chain drive

Fast potter's wheel

Fiberglass

Floating dry dock

Fourdrinier machine

Froth flotation

Fused filament fabrication

Gas turbine

Gears

Gimbal

Glass blowing

Glue

Gristmill

Ground stone

Gutta-percha (modern use)

Hafted axe

Hafting

Hot metal typesetting

Hydraulic press

Ignition magneto

Industrial porcelain enamel

Injection molding

Internal combustion engine

Ivory carving

Kiln

Kraft paper process

Lacquer

Laser cutting

Lashed-lug boat building

Lathe

Lost-wax casting

Masking tape

Mechanical wood pulping

Microlith

Mortise and tenon

Motorized air compressor

Mousterian stone tool

Movable type

Obsidian tool

Offset printing

Oil refinery

Oldowan stone tool

Paper machine

Paper recycling

Papermaking

Pattern-tracing lathe

Phoenician joint

Photomask projection aligner

Phototypesetting

Pigments

Pivoted scissors

Planer

Porcelain

Pottery

Powered printing press

Pre-cut cardboard box

Pulley

Pulsejet

Pyrometer

Rifling

Rope

Rotary printing press

Rotary quern

Rubber

S-trap

Screw

Screw-cutting lathe

Screwdriver

Selective laser melting

Selective laser sintering

Sewn boat building

Soap

Spinning wheel

Spring scissors

Steam injector

Steel plough

Stepper

Stereolithography

Stone tool

Sulfite wood pulp process

Synthetic diamond

Synthetic rubber

Tanned leather

Tournette

Trip hammer

V8 engine

Vitreous enamel

Woodblock printing

Zipper

Mechanisms (6)

Just-in-Time

Kaizen

Kanban Pull Signaling

Platform Architecture

Tiered Supply Chain Structure

Just-In-Time Manufacturing

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